Trump played him like a fiddle. He would use Bolton’s insane war mongering to bring the other side to the table until a negotiation was made and then Bolton would be pissed he didn’t get his war. Trump did this a couple times with North Korea, China, and Iran. Bolton still doesn’t get he was being used as leverage.
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Cernovich was talking about this on twitter. Bolton writes these chapters complaing about how insane it was the he couldn't talk GEOTUS into senseless and disproportionate strikes. As if his job was to pull America into another intractable police action with vague goals. Over and over, killing hundreds of people to avenge a robot, or a borken promise, he couldn't convince him to fill hundreds of bodybags.
Each time GEOTUS steered clear of war and Bolton thinks it somehow makes him look like the good guy foiled at every turn.